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Add release note for CVE-2017-17507 #4275

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Expand Up @@ -693,6 +693,19 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.14.0 release

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- Fixed CVE-2017-17507

This CVE was previously declared fixed, but later testing with a static
build of HDF5 showed that it was not fixed.

When parsing a malformed (fuzzed) compound type containing variable-length
string members, the library could produce a segmentation fault, crashing
the library.

This was fixed after GitHub PR #4234

Fixes GitHub issue #3446

- Fixed a cache assert with very large metadata objects

If the library tries to load a metadata object that is above a
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